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Nowadays Brando serves notice on producers and directors that he will work no longer than three weeks on a film. In July he will put in three weeks for Francis Ford Coppola in Manila, playing the commander of a group of renegade Green Berets in the Viet Nam film Apocalypse. His pay: $2 million. Says Brando: "I'm nearing the end of the line. I figure I've got about two shells left in the chamber. One of them is going to be a picture I want to do about the American Indian...
...Stanislavsky method. "I found it helpful," said Marlon Brando on a Mike Douglas Show to be broadcast this week, "not to know one single line and to have lines written on the boards ..." "And on the pocket and the body of another actor," interrupted Godfather Director Francis Ford Coppola. On one occasion, Coppola added, he wondered why Brando was handling a melon in such a strange, reflective way. "Then I saw," he said, "that some of Brando's dialogue had been written on the melon...
Anyway, it goes on and on in like manner, to the point that one can only conclude the Millus should be locked up or sold to the Chilean government as a consultant on South Korean methods of crowd control. Instead, Millus is signed as screenwriter for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypee New, a big blockbusting statement on Vietnam, with massacres, heroin addiction, the whole thing. What could be the only fictional film about the indochina War (we exclude The Green Berels, which was so outrageous that French students would systematically take to the streets whenever it opened in a given...
Hackman is perfect at presenting the peripheral man, an identityless form floating around on the edge of things, affecting nothing. His character is nondescript enough to make way for tragedy--elements more powerful than himself can take over without a fight because he's doomed from the start. In Coppola's The Conversation. Hackman is totally subservient to the technology of his work: the bugging devices he plays with as vicarious life turn on him. They erase his sense of self so much that he begins to convince himself that he's being bugged. Finally, he doesn't have enough...
...Coppola says he is committing $1 million to the rebuilding of City, in addition to the $500,000 he lost in its previous manifestation. He promises to keep the magazine going for a year and then reassess his commitment. "If it's a total turkey, I'll close it," he says. But for Coppola, who also owns a San Francisco theater, FM radio station and various other local enterprises and real estate, City is a reaffirmation of both his affection for San Francisco and his imaginative megalomania. "I don't know if all my ideas for City...